noun. Ulceration of the mouth and lips.

noun. An inflammation or infection of the ear and auditory canal, especially in dogs and cats.

noun. A condition in horses similar to but more advanced than thrush.

noun. undefined

noun. A localized diseased or necrotic area on a plant part, especially on a trunk, branch, or twig of a woody plant, usually caused by fungi or bacteria.

noun. Any of several diseases of plants characterized by the presence of such lesions.

noun. A source of spreading corruption or decay.

intransitive verb. To attack or infect with canker.

intransitive verb. To infect with corruption or decay.

intransitive verb. To become infected with or as if with canker.

To infect with canker, either literally or figuratively; eat into, corrode, or corrupt; infect as with a poisonous influence; render ill-conditioned or venomous; make sour and ill-natured.

To corrode; grow corrupt; be infected with some poisonous or pernicious influence; be or become ill-conditioned or malignant.

To fret; become peevish.

To decay or waste away by means of any noxious cause; grow rusty or discolored by oxidation, as a metal.

noun. A cancerous, gangrenous, or ulcerous sore or disease, whether in animals or plants; hence, any corroding or other noxious agency producing ulceration, gangrene, rot, decay, etc.

noun. Specifically— Cancrum oris (which see, under cancrum).

noun. A disease or fungus attacking trees or other plants and causing slow decay.

noun. In farriery, a disease in horses' feet, causing a discharge of fetid matter from the cleft in the middle of the frog, generally originating in a diseased thrush.

noun. A canker-worm or insect-larva that injures plants by feeding on them.

noun. Figuratively, anything that corrodes, corrupts, destroys, or irritates; irritation; pain; grief; care.

noun. Rust.

noun. In botany: The canker-rose or field-poppy, Papaver Rhæas.

noun. The wild dogrose, Rosa canina.

noun. A toadstool.

noun. An irregular excrescence on the trunks or branches of woody plants, caused by the perennial effort of the tissues to overcome an injury. Cankers may be originated by various causes, such as accidental wounds, injuries by frost, insects, fungi or bacteria, or various combinations of these.

noun. A disease of fowls affecting the mouth and windpipe. It produces ulceration and often ends in death.

noun. A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth; -- called also water canker, canker of the mouth, and noma.

noun. Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroy.

noun. A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off.

noun. An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths; -- usually resulting from neglected thrush.

noun. A kind of wild, worthless rose; the dog-rose.

noun. See under Black.

intransitive verb. To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral.

intransitive verb. To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous.

transitive verb. To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.

transitive verb. To infect or pollute; to corrupt.

noun. A plant disease marked by gradual decay.

noun. A corroding or sloughing ulcer; especially a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth.

noun. Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroys.

noun. A kind of wild, worthless rose; the dog rose.

noun. An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths. Usually resulting from neglected thrush.

noun. An avian disease affecting doves, poultry, parrots but also birds of prey caused by Trichomonas gallinae

verb. To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.

verb. To infect or pollute; to corrupt.

verb. To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral.

verb. To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous.

noun. an ulceration (especially of the lips or lining of the mouth)

noun. a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of

verb. infect with a canker

verb. become infected with a canker

"I didn't mean to, Bill, but it's like a friggin 'canker sore."

apple-tree canker  black canker  hemp canker  ivy canker  larch canker  

comedown  infect  influence  plant disease  sicken  

anchor  anker  banker  danker  hanker  

anthracnose  blight  curculio  miasma  mildew  

abscess  adulterate  alloy  aposteme  bed sore  

canker of the mouth  noma  water canker  

cankered  cankering  cankers